[DBaldock9]

Is this what's required to make and play playlists in this player??? Seriously, in this day and age?

I assume most media managers (MusicBee, Mediamonkey, Jriver) could create the M3U lists without needing to install the Cygwin layer and hack a command line.

I use JRiver MC24 to rip my CDs, and it will create and manage Playlist files.
My bash shell scripts, which do more than the couple of lines I listed above, were created because I enjoy writing scripts to manage and modify my files.
I started years ago, writing shell scripts to batch process (renaming / resizing / watermarking) the raw image files from my cameras.
It turns out that the exiftool command line program can also read and work with the Metadata in audio files.

 

[AndySocial]

I use JRiver MC24 to rip my CDs, and it will create and manage Playlist files.
My bash shell scripts, which do more than the couple of lines I listed above, were created because I enjoy writing scripts to manage and modify my files.
I started years ago, writing shell scripts to batch process (renaming / resizing / watermarking) the raw image files from my cameras.
It turns out that the exiftool command line program can also read and work with the Metadata in audio files.

I mash bash scripts daily at work, but I notice very few folks nowadays want to deal with the learning curve in order to get to the power.

 

[silverfishla]

I use JRiver MC24 to rip my CDs, and it will create and manage Playlist files.
My bash shell scripts, which do more than the couple of lines I listed above, were created because I enjoy writing scripts to manage and modify my files.
I started years ago, writing shell scripts to batch process (renaming / resizing / watermarking) the raw image files from my cameras.
It turns out that the exiftool command line program can also read and work with the Metadata in audio files.

JRiver is a great music cataloging program (and much more). My favorite of all of them. Easy to fix metadata, album art (that doesn’t show up on your player) rip CDs, even add DSP or sound adjustments to files (as a copy) for those albums that just don’t sound that great. The most comprehensive program and most useful for anyone who uses DAPs or plays music to a system through the computer. Just the best. I’ve been using it since the Pono player came out, those years ago.

 

[TLDRonin]

From My Music --> Playlist, is there anyway to change the Playlist to something different than "Playlist1/2/3/etc."?

 

[Shanling]

From My Music --> Playlist, is there anyway to change the Playlist to something different than "Playlist1/2/3/etc."?

Not for now.

 

[endgame4]

Not for now.

Makes me wonder how people in China use DAPs as you previously said external playlists are not a popular function in China.

Playlists seem such an integral part of a music player. Not being able to name them is so limited.

Glad we got m3u/m3u8 support in latest firmware, I now use it all the time.

 

[fingertrouble]

Is this what's required to make and play playlists in this player??? Seriously, in this day and age?

There's loads of software that creates .M3U files. On Windows there's Winamp which I'm pretty sure still saves playlists, and on OSX Tinyplayer will export them. Just google. You don't have to hack code, but make sure that you use the recommended format for Shanling (it uses relative paths from the root folder, etc).

Even if you use something like iTunes on Mac, as I do, there's software like iSyncer and M3Unify, Doug's iTunes scripts, and I think iTunes exports M3U directly.
(I have all my files in iTunes and not going to start using other software now, also I still use my iPod)

 

[AndySocial]

Makes me wonder how people in China use DAPs as you previously said external playlists are not a popular function in China.

Playlists seem such an integral part of a music player. Not being able to name them is so limited.

Glad we got m3u/m3u8 support in latest firmware, I now use it all the time.

The lack of interest in user playlists is an abiding mystery for me as well. It comes up on every new DAP announcement, yet somehow remains not a priority.

 

[fish1050]

The lack of interest in user playlists is an abiding mystery for me as well. It comes up on every new DAP announcement, yet somehow remains not a priority.

I have an interest but to much of a hassle so far on the M0. The free version of Media Monkey does not provide the option for relative paths when syncing and I don't want to pay $25.00 just for that option with the paid version. Tried Musicbee a few times and it added the tracks fine but not the actual playlist. I think I will stick to playing playlists on my home setup for now. I simply don't have the time and patience to mess with playlists on the M0, makes me miss the simplicity of adding playlists to my A17. Probably a simple thing for you guys who are use to using 3rd party software but at my age with my busy life I simply don't have the time to waste futzing with playlists trying to make them work.

 

[crabdog]

Finally managed to get my M0 review done. All testing was done on firmware version 2.1. The M0 is not perfect but for the asking price, I couldn't ask for anything more. I think it's brilliant.
https://primeaudio.org/shanling-m0-review-take-it-everywhere/

 

[barondla]

Finally managed to get my M0 review done. All testing was done on firmware version 2.1. The M0 is not perfect but for the asking price, I couldn't ask for anything more. I think it's brilliant.
https://primeaudio.org/shanling-m0-review-take-it-everywhere/

Excellent review. Nice and clear. The M0 is a great little dap. Agree that the M0 sounds really good with the Tin Audio. Been using that combo myself.

 

[lepre]

I have an interest but to much of a hassle so far on the M0. The free version of Media Monkey does not provide the option for relative paths when syncing and I don't want to pay $25.00 just for that option with the paid version. Tried Musicbee a few times and it added the tracks fine but not the actual playlist. I think I will stick to playing playlists on my home setup for now. I simply don't have the time and patience to mess with playlists on the M0, makes me miss the simplicity of adding playlists to my A17. Probably a simple thing for you guys who are use to using 3rd party software but at my age with my busy life I simply don't have the time to waste futzing with playlists trying to make them work.

If the playlist is in the root folder of the SD card absolute pathnames are working too :
/Music/Gregory Porter/xxxx.flac

 

[crabdog]

Excellent review. Nice and clear. The M0 is a great little dap. Agree that the M0 sounds really good with the Tin Audio. Been using that combo myself.

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

 

[fingertrouble]

I simply don't have the time and patience to mess with playlists on the M0, makes me miss the simplicity of adding playlists to my A17. Probably a simple thing for you guys who are use to using 3rd party software but at my age with my busy life I simply don't have the time to waste futzing with playlists trying to make them work.

Yet you have the time to moan about it on a forum? You can't be THAT busy then!

Really by the time you'd typed that comment, you could have downloaded Winamp or Tinyplayer, installed it, dragged a few files in and then clicked 'Export playlist' or 'Save M3U'...

 

[darkwing]

was wondering, what is the advantage of the Earstudio ES100 to this one? been looking for a way to stream LDAC from my phone